Anonymous Releases 75K Stolen Credit Card Numbers

A young man wears an Anonymous mask joins a group from Occupy Wall Street as they begin a march on November 9 in Jersey City. (Getty Images)

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The band of hackers known as Anonymous has just released the names, email addresses, and passwords for around 860,000 users of Stratfor, a security think tank, as well as 75,000 credit card numbers belonging to Stratfor's paying customers. The initial digital theft took place on Dec. 24, reports the Washington Post. Stratfor's website has been shut down since then.

Stratfor (short for Strategic Forecasting) is seen in some camps as a "shadow CIA," according to Reuters, and the list released by the Anonymous faction known as Antisec appears to include employees of defense contractors, the military, and big corporations. The Pentagon says no sensitive data appears to have been compromised. Anonymous is warning of a new attack on "law enforcement targets" on New Year’s Eve. (Read more Anonymous stories.)

LOL... How many people going to give money to or support a security think tank that isnt secure??? LMFAO!!!!

GraviD

Dec 31, 2011 6:24 PM CST

They're just doing this for sh*ts and giggles. The hacker mentality is to just see if you can do things for the sake of doing them. If anything Stratfor should hunt down the few guys that did this and pay them good money for showing them just how secure their clients personal data was. All large firms and companies pay people to do just that. I love how the media makes "anonymous" out to be a huge hacker organization with an underground base and a Dr. Evil esq leader. It's just a label ANYONE can use.

Ultraworld

Dec 31, 2011 4:14 PM CST

A few years ago Anonymous was to have crushed Scientology. Sounds more like a group of disorganized hackers.